Perhaps the committee was saying that if you don't belong to a conference, lost to both the playoff teams you faced, AND your best win is over 9-3 USC, you can sit down and shut the fuck up.

Are they good, though? They've played exactly 1 ranked team, Oregon, who has played exactly 1 ranked team, Indiana. It's a top 10 circle jerk. It's possible they're good, and equally possible they're only good against Kennesaw State and Maryland

There is nothing genuine about AI. It's code. It doesn't think. It's "generative" the way a graphing calculator is generative. If what it's trained on is racist garbage, what comes out is racist garbage, regardless of your prompt. And there's a whole lot of racist garbage in media.

Cool. Instead, how about we raise minimum wage $25/hr, and if you pay your CEO more than 100x what your lowest paid worker makes, we double your tax rate, with no deductions. Stock options are taxable salary, available to every worker, and capped at 25% of the lowest salary. Innovative enough?

Wheelock, 2014 from Iowa State University. There are plenty of discussions we need to have about industrial agriculture and the crops that are chosen and monocultures and pesticide and herbicide use, but no insects is not a result of corn. Something else is happening there.

That's...very odd. While corn is wind pollinated, it still serves as a pollen resevoir for insects. Here in the midwestern US, literally called the 'corn belt,' with heavier pesticide use than the EU, we have insects in corn fields. See the publication 'Insect pollinators in corn and soybean fields'

but my point about the 30% on the sidelines wasn't just about elections, it's about perception. You have to have a critical mass of people that believe the fascists are wrong and out of control. Without that, guns don't help, they give ICE a license to kill with impunity

My point is not that you shouldn't have guns. My point is that they will not protect your neighborhood from ICE or any other government raids. Whiteness will offer a measure of protection for a while. So will socioeconomic status. Everything possible will be done to rig elections,

Peacful is not harmless is important, and the Black Panthers accomplished real good. But Fred Hampton fully illustrates that a house full of guns will not protect you if the state comes a knockin, even if you're drugged and don't fire a shot. And the masses will fully believe it was all your fault.

mostly disagree, not fully. But in my little blue dot in my big red state, if they come, being loud, white, and unarmed is the only thing that will make them think twice

BELIEVING IT COULD HAPPEN TO THEM. A neighborhood full of shotguns might, very temporarily, hold off a very small raid team, maybe. But in the US, that has historically only worked if you're white, and even then, only occasionally. That doesn't mean it could never happen, which is why I said I

The people who have thus far been successful at disrupting ICE raids have been unarmed and vocal. You with a shotgun is something the fascists can spin into justified killing. What gets the 30% off the bench is watching, actually seeing, violence against unarmed civilians and

government and are WAY better armed than we could ever hope to be. A shotgun does nothing against a tank or knife missile (a real thing, thanks Raytheon!). The Confederacy gave armed revolt a good shot, and ended up losing due to lack of manufacturing capacity and sheer numbers.

I mostly disagree. First, you won't actually know who will stand up until the guns are pointed at you. Second, our only way out of this is getting the 30% of Americans sitting on the sidelines in the game and on our side. The 30% going full fascist control all branches of

Yeah...no. Do you think there aren't a shitload of gun owners in rural California? You think those farmers don't have shotguns? If ICE isn't raiding your neighborhood, it's whiteness (or socioeconomic status) not guns protecting you